Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-10
Personal. AND GENERAL.

and the rest in securities, most of which
are hypothecated.
HEALTH OFFICER SMITH, OF New York,
reported on the I'd that there were three
children taken from the steamship Alesia
and transferred to the hospital. The case
of cholera taken from the same vessel on
October % is reported to be convalescent.
FIVE fishing tugs went out from Two
Rivers, Wis, on the I'd, and carried back
women, who had been aboard the foun-
dered propeller Vernon, making twenty
two bodies that have been recovered.
AT Steubenville, O., on the night of
the I'd, while John G. Beatty and Miss
Hattie Turner, both prominent society
people, were crossing the Pan-H Handle
railroad track. they were run down by a
locomotive. Beatty was killed instantly
and Miss Turner received injuries which
will cause death.
THE steam yacht Mohican, which
brought over a party of Scotchman to
witness the defeat of the Thistle, has been
fitted with her ocean rig at Tompkins-
vile, and she will sail for a winter cruise
in the West Indies on the 9th. Mr.. John
Clark, her owner, and number of invit-
ed guests will be ON board.
The Bulgarian Sobranje has passed a
francs to be nominally composed Of cop
per and nickel.
IT is reported that the position Of first
assistant Secretary of State has been
rendered to E. Boyd Faulkner, of Martins
burg, w. Va, and that he has the offer
under serious consideration. The report
can not be confirmed at the State Depart
ment, nor is it denied.
THE President and most of the members
of his Cabinet are now busily engaged in
the preparation of their annual reports to
Congress. Attorney General Garland has
finished his report, and it is now in the
hands Of the President.
THE Western Union Telegraph Com
pany fled a certificate with the Secretary
of State at Albany, N. Y, ON the I'd, in
creasing its capital $1,000, 200, raising the
total to $50, 100000. The company paid
Sc, $50 into the State Treasury under the
Vedder law.
THE strike among coal miners, that has
been in operation at Evansville. Ind, and
vicinity since the middle of September,
has ceased, and all the mines are again in
operation. The miners failed to get the
price asked, but resumed work at three
cents per bushel, the old rate.
THE Crow Indians are reported to have
gone on the war-path.
road is being changed from narrow to
standard gauge.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE of the United
States Supreme Court was the recipient
by mail Especial delivery, on the Sd, of
an Internal machine, the exploding wire
to which had become detached in transit,
and thus preventing a sad calamity when
it was opened. The police are Investigate
ing.
IT was a leaky gaspipe, and not an Irish
dynamiter, that caused the explosion at
the Carlton Club, London, on the I'd.
THE Choctaw q. To- national council is
in session, and it is alleged the members
have been having hilarious old time of
it.
BISMARCK has assured the Sultan that
Germany will consent to no scheme that
threatens the territorial integrity of
Turkey.f
1t is rumored that consolidation of the
st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern and
the Chicago, Burlington s. Kansas City
roads is probable.
GERMAN spies have been over in Russia
and CLEANED important information con-
corning the condition of the army and the
frontier defenses.
A FINDLANDER fell down the shaft at
the Cleveland mine at Ishpeming, Mich,
JUDGE PHILIP L. SPoONER, father of
United States Senator Spooner, of Wis
consin, died on the Sd, at Madison, aged
seventy-six years. He had taken a promi-
nent part in the development of the North
west.
A REWARD of five hundred francs has
been offered for the discovery of the as
sailants of M. Saluz, chief of the Swiss
Labor party, who was stabbed, it is al
legged, by Anarchists. Saluz has since
died of his wounds.
MASKED men stopped the east-bound
Salt Lake express train on the Denver s.
Rio Grande road on the Sd, and went
through the passengers for a cons iderable
amount.
DIR. HENRY A. HOLMES, Phi. D., LII. D.,
State librarian, died on the morning of
the Sd at Albany, N. Y, of Bright's
disease of the kidneys, after long i'll
ness.
RoBINSON'S circus train was wrecked
at the Union depot, st. Louis on the
the Sd, and the wild animals temporarily
liberated. George Squires, a canvas
man, was killed and several others in
jured.
New YoRK's Board of Health is con-
sidering the question of sending back
cholera ships to Italy and stopping dan
gerous vessels now coming this way.
The Home Rule Union of London has
adopted a resolution expressing sympa-
thy with Sir Wilfred Blunt and William
O'Brien, and has resolved to continue the
agitation in Ireland, with the aid of En-
glish speakers.
A FIRE-0AMP explosion occurred at Mat
lock in Derbyshire, England, on the Sd.
Twenty-Five men were in the pit at the
time of the explosion and il ia not known
how many of these were killed. Five
bodies have been recovered.
THE case against John Coughlin, one of
the men arrested with "Blinky" Morgan
for the murder of Detective Hulligan, was
called at Ravenna,O on the Sd. At the re.
quest of the prosecution it was pos tponed
until Monday, November IA.
THE members of the English Peace Com
mission now visiting Pittsburgh, Pa, as
the guests of Andrew Carnegie, devoted
the day on the Sd to inspecting the vari-
GUS indus tries. In the evening the visitors
were rendered q reception and banquet by
Mr.. Carnegie.
JOSEPH MILLER an old seaman, residing
at Newburyport, Mass. who served in
the navy early in the war, has been al.
lowed a snug sum of money as a pension
for total blindness from October p, 1863.
His first payment, payable at the Boston
agency, will be S13,OS5.
THE house of William Wade, at Chester,
N. Y, was burned on the morning of the Sd.
Mr.. Wade, who is q railroad man, arose at
three O'Clock and left his wife getting
breakfast. On returning, he found the
house in flames and Mrs. Wade missing.
Her bones W ere found in the ruins.
A SPAR torpedo burst at Newport, R. l.,
on the afternoon of the I'd whils haino